Willamette
Proper noun
Meaning
Willamette
A river in Oregon, United States, a major tributary of the Columbia River.
Examples
Across the Willamette River in West Salem is the convert Wallace Marine Park, which includes a boat ramp and floating boat dock allowing easy access to the river for water sports.
At this time of the year, Jason Lett, proprietor of the in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, is usually bottling wines and packing boxes to ship to members of Eyrie’s wine club.
During this same period of time, Portland went from a jewel on the Willamette River to first a haven for the homeless, then for the drug addicted and now for the thugs that rule Portland’s streets – burning, looting and injuring people and property.
A lighter, more feminine wine, the 2012 Illahe Percheron Willamette Valley ($38), was pleasant if slightly thin.
Fagan, History of Benton County, Oregon, pg. 423. Avery was quickly joined by other settlers along the banks of the Willamette River, including a 640-acre claim directly to his north taken in September 1846 by William F. Dixon.
According to the Willamette Week, my local police department was called by the county elections office in an attempt to stop Democratic canvassers who were offering to collect ballots.